Chelsea's Paris Adventure: Last week of classes

   The last week has jumped up on me. The time in Paris has gone by so fast. I am extremely happy i got the opportunity to come over seas and take class. I have met a lot of people and learned to not be as ethnocentric when evaluating my surroundings. on Tuesday we went to a museum that housed Claude Monet's Paintings. One of his paintings is the reason the Impressionism movement was named. The painting that represents this was not valued until more recent years. It was found rolled up and being shipped to a buyer. They have now restored it and put it in to a giant gold frame. One of the things i find peculiar is the fact that many of the museums here they move around the order and presentations of the artwork. Each time we go out teacher Claude looks for the painting where it used to be and almost every time it has been moved to a new mall.
   Wednesday we had our last marketing class. We were divided into groups of 4 and assigned a case. I was in a group with Rachael Prouhet, Brittani Knott, and Lis Beard. We did are article on 4 car companies and their attempts at international marketing. Each group has a different company or set of companies. I was fun to see the different ways to present between the Florida students, German, Turkmenistan and us. The students from UNC, tended to use a PowerPoint that was very concise and fewer bullet points. The German seemed like he wanted to give a full background on the company, beyond what was included in the article assigned.
   The last piece of our week here at school is focused on our management class. We are finishing up our last project and adding on finishing details for exporting into the European union. We are in teams of two. I choose Rachael to be my partner because i knew she was a good worker and the project it worth a lot of our grade. We were originally going to do the company Melt. The company is not currently strong enough financially ready for going international. We switched companies and now are working on exporting Victoria's Secret to Rome, Italy.
XOXO, Chelsea